No offense to those that do, but I don't get the appeal for shit like this.

Think of it like Horror Movies with music. It's an acquired taste. Some people can watch a A Nightmare on Elm Street marathon and be entertained while others it won't do a damn thing for them. I bet everyone here likes at least one song classified as horrorcore but at the same time you're not going to bump that for a whole album. Horrorcore generally appeals to the Horror Marathon Fan. Myself back in TX there was a channel that on saturday weekends it was a straight horrorfest especially during summer. I know for a fact I've seen more horror flicks in general than my friends just from watching that station alone. And some of the stuff they've seen and think is gruesome is laughable to me. When it's something you enjoy quality becomes scarce. To this day the bloodiest film I've ever seen is Dead Alive and for a long time Dusk Till Dawn held that record until I saw it. But I admit I like Dawn more overall.

A lot of early horrorcore would've fell under the umbrella of gangsta rap (Brotha Lynch Hung, X-Raided, Insane Poetry, Three 6 Mafia). People have to remember a lot sub-genres of music overlap. Before gangsta rap was called gangsta rap most would've considered it extreme hardcore. If you were to ask people right now to explain what's the difference between gangsta rap and hardcore rap you'd probably get a lot of conflicting answers.

If you asked people what is Southern Rap: is it particular style of sound (meaning can a dude from North Dakota be a Southern Rapper) or is it music made by Southerners? Or both?